"Do not come for adventure here": Mercenaries in DRC
Send Alia a Text Message Host Alia Brahimi is joined on the podcast by the African politics and security expert Ben Shepherd. After 300 Romanian mercenaries were cornered by M23 rebels in the Democrat...
28 Feb 202548min
“No, really”: American PMCs in Gaza
Send Alia a Text Message Alia chats with modern warfare expert Dr Andreas Krieg about the sudden deployment of three private military companies to the Netzarim corridor in the Gaza Strip. Andreas exa...
30 Jan 202545min
A mercenary client collapses
Send Alia a Text Message Alia sits down with acclaimed author and former CIA analyst, David McCloskey, to discuss the spectacular collapse of a major mercenary client in Syria. They discuss why, despi...
23 Des 202435min
Air force for hire
Send Alia a Text Message Alia is joined by the mercenaries expert Alessandro Arduino, who is also a top China analyst. They discuss recent seismic leaps in UAV technology and how the cost of drone def...
30 Nov 20241h 2min
Sledgehammer: The Wagner cult in Syria
Send Alia a Text Message Host and Nonresident Senior Fellow Alia Brahimi chats with the defence researcher Jack Margolin about his new book on the Wagner Group. They focus on its operations in support...
23 Okt 202454min
"Borrowed servants"? PMCs and sadism at Abu Ghraib
Send Alia a Text Message Alia is joined by the international criminal lawyer Katherine Gallagher to explore her litigation against a prominent PMC for war crimes at Abu Ghraib. Katherine talks us thro...
26 Sep 20241h 2min
I was a Blackwater mercenary in Iraq
Send Alia a Text MessageAlia is joined by former Blackwater contractor Morgan Lerette. In a wide-ranging conversation about Morgan's experiences, they look at Blackwater’s lax vetting procedures, the ...
27 Jul 202459min
Mercenary meatgrinder: The price of Bakhmut
Send Alia a Text Message Alia is joined by the Russian reporter and photojournalist, David Frenkel, to consider the staggering toll of the “Bakhmut meatgrinder”– Russia’s bloodiest battle since the Se...
26 Jun 20241h 1min
